08-14-2012, 02:28 AM
The patera shown at page two where the handle had been repaired at some time I have held all of the pieces of it and the other base and it is a beaten out patera that has a cast base fitted
The thickness of the handle indicates to me to have been of 16 gauge as is the upper flange and indeed from much experience of making such items it would take that gauge to reach the depth we see in the bowl.
These beaten out patera start off in the shape of a table tennis bat and they are about an inch or 25mm greater in diameter than the tube used to beat them on and it is an acquired art where it is done in concentric circle beating.
The one that Moi has shown is starting to show holes at its weakest point that is in the upper 1/4 of the bowl as indeed is the reason for the handle to have broken off the larger one at page two.
The thickness of the handle indicates to me to have been of 16 gauge as is the upper flange and indeed from much experience of making such items it would take that gauge to reach the depth we see in the bowl.
These beaten out patera start off in the shape of a table tennis bat and they are about an inch or 25mm greater in diameter than the tube used to beat them on and it is an acquired art where it is done in concentric circle beating.
The one that Moi has shown is starting to show holes at its weakest point that is in the upper 1/4 of the bowl as indeed is the reason for the handle to have broken off the larger one at page two.
Brian Stobbs
